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Blekko Releases a Trading Card Promotion
Blekko, once “the little search engine at could,” not the “feisty raccoon of the search engine world,” has had its share of strange promotions in...
Blekko Releases a Slashtag for Its Shameless Self-Promotion
Blekko has been pushing hard with promotions, combining the power of everything from lighting things on fire to creating trading cards, and let’s face it: the heavy...
Google to Save the Innocents Hit by “Farmer Update”
Editor’s note: For the latest information on the Google Panda algorithm, please see: A Complete Guide to the Google Panda Update. Google was under a lot...
Google Hotpot Helps Texas Students “Rate for a Cause”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Google Hotpot is the most heavily promoted Google product since Chrome, and that’s nothing to ignore....
Yelp Is “Unhappy” with Google Hotpot
I’ve written a lot about Google Hotpot in the past, including some information on how the evolution of Places (yes, Hotpot and Places are for...
Yahoo Makes It to Sweet Sixteen
Yahoo is old enough that it can get a job, a driver’s license, and (if it lived in Germany) drink beer. That’s right: Yahoo has...
Google “GAUGE” Invites Users to Analyze Analytics
While Google has released a myriad of tools to help webmasters, one of their best-known and most pragmatic is Google Analytics. Provided as a free...
Bing Participates in the TED Education Think Tank
The technology giants have, almost since the common public starting using technology, been major contributors to creative innovations for education. Looking back we see the...
Bing Adds “Natural Language” Shopping Refinement
Bing is currently struggling up-hill against the (let’s face it) essential monopoly of Google. Microsoft, whose technology titan status gives them both industry access to...
Google Buys German Reverse Engineering Company
Google is a monolithic entity – so big and so powerful that it trumps competitors (except Bing, which is gaining) by its mere presence, with...
Google Adds OCR for 29 More Languages
Google is an incredibly multi-lingual company when it comes right down to it. That’s no negligible factor, either. While Yahoo! U.S. was busy siding with Bing to finally...
Google to Release In-App Payments in May
When Google acquired Jambool in August of 2010, many rumors started flying around. After all, Jambool is and was a social network game payment group that helped “synchronize” payments...
Google AdWords Automated Simplicity
Automated Rules works by following rules you set including what part of your adwords campaign the rule applies to and what is the automatic action...
Web 3.0: The New Language of the Semantic Web
I love venturing into new and unknown places. Travel has always been an extremely important part of my life. The excitement of learning a new...
Home is Where The User Is
Out with the old ways of designing a website where there is a traditional landing (home) page and more basic interior pages. We all know...
Google’s Schmidt States Mobile Growing Faster than All Predictions
Google representatives, especially those high up on the ladder, are no stranger to major events. This is especially true for Eric Schmidt who, over the...
Google’s Algorithm Change: The Losers and Winners
Editor’s note: For the latest information on the Google Panda algorithm, please see: A Complete Guide to the Google Panda Update. The air is heavy with hatred...
Gmail Eats 150,000 Accounts
Google is well-known for its app suite, especially for the highly popular Gmail. Gmail has shown as one of the most innovative, stable, and all-around awesome utilities on...
Google Discusses the Importance of Anonymity
Image via Google Public Policy Google has made some recent updates to their interface, including a more succinct settings menu, as easier way to switch...
Yahoo Study Looks at the Who, What, and How of Search
There are plenty of debates in the world of search today, and “private vs personalized” is one of the big ones. While some users and...
The Farmer Update Harmed Codependent Site Owners
Content farms are dead. Long live content farms. Well not really. May they never bounce back again. Please. Yet like every major update Google rolls...
How To: Track Keyword Categories
Let’s be real, standard ranking reports for targeted keywords are dead. With the latest changes in local search, personalization, etc. simply tracking search engine rankings...
From Russia with Love: SEO for Russian Market
Some of you were probably facing the problem of search engine optimization in Russia, where Yandex is the leader among search engines and, and it...
Bing and Google: Mutually Stealing Social Search Concepts
In previous posts, I’ve put a lot of heat on Vivek Wadhwa, who – while he’s clearly knowledgeable – has also released a lot of...
Google Graduates Label Labs
In the midst of a Gmail disaster (more on that later today), Gmail is adding a set of new features for users. These two options...
The Transformation of Chrome into an OS
We all know that Google will be releasing an operating system sometime later this year with Chrome OS. However, what many people haven’t recognized is...
Google Becomes Your Sous Chef with Recipe Search
There are always dozens of excuses not to cook your own food, but the biggest one tends to be simply not knowing what to cook. After...
Don’t Underestimate Over-Optimization
Is there such a thing as over optimized? Can there be too much of a good thing in link building? Well just like eating 100...
10 Tips for Building Your Online Business and Keeping It Alive
Obviously, you want your online business to succeed instead of flop. Like most business efforts, you have to learn what to do – very few...
Keyword Research: Analyzing the Important Factors that Contribute to Online Marketing Success
One of the most important initial steps in any search engine optimization endeavor is keyword research. Without the right keyword research, you can pretty much...